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Ascend Learning reviews

3.9

62% would recommend to a friend

(511 total reviews)
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Greg Sebasky

58% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Ascend Learning has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 511 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ascend Learning employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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511 reviews
1.0
Nov 18, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The customers are wonderful to work with and pay is decent.

Cons

Unfortunately I would not currently recommend working for this company!! The training program is extremely weak and there is very little support from management. This was previously an amazing company with strong morals, but that all changed as of Jan 2014. This company is in debt and has hired a completely new team of leaders. This new team has made several detrimentally bad choices for the company! They began laying off tenured employees, wiped out a whole team of customer services roles which directly effect the level of service the customers receive, and cut back on the budget needed to help fund technology updates. The quality of the product portfolio as well as the customer service has greatly declined over the last yr. The customers as well as the employees are very unhappy and management has not seemed to take note of this. The large reduction in employees has created a paranoia amongst the remaining team and also hugely increased everyone's workload to require at least 70 hrs/wk to be successful. This company operates on Hyper-growth goals of 20-25% increase by quarter. Commission structure was recently changed to be paid on an incremental growth goal, which means if you are behind in 1 quarter, you will not likely receive commission on any subsequent quarters! These factors hugely impact pay and have turned what used to be a great paying position into a position with low pay in consideration of the hrs/wk needed. The paranoia due to lack of job security spans across all levels including the management team which means that management are not supporting their direct report employees and rather than objectively ratings employees, there are several cases of scapegoating and firing. I truly hope this company can clean up their current issues and once again become the wonderful company I signed on to work with!

5.0
Oct 22, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great group of people who really care about what they do and always looking to make process and technology improvements. There is a lot of opportunity for people to demonstrate their skills and knowledge. Your ideas are listened and in some cases acted upon if its agreed to be good idea.

Cons

Company lacks consistent repeatable processes in certain areas which gives new and existing employees real good opportunity to demonstrate their skills and knowledge that would contribute to making a difference.

4.0
Oct 18, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Smart and energetic group of people to work with. Above average pay and good benefits (in IT)

Cons

chaotic, at times; could be better organized

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